Brother Jeffrey,<\/p>\n
I just wanted to say thank you. You and I do not know one another, for we have never met. I was surfing the\u00a0internet\u00a0this morning and stumbled across the La Vista\u00a0Church\u00a0of Christ website and I must say that I enjoyed looking it over at great length. I\u00a0especially enjoyed the home page and I wish more church bodies in America felt that way. Thank you and your congregation for being faithful to the word of God and focusing on the soul of man instead of the artificial needs of man.<\/p>\n
My prayer and hope for you and your congregation are that you never change. I pray that God will encourage and strengthen each of you as well as to give each of you wisdom and discernment as you, as a united\u00a0body<\/strong>\u00a0continue to labor for the Kingdom of the Lord.<\/p>\n\t Thank you for the kind words of encouragement.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Brother Jeffrey, I just wanted to say thank you. You and I do not know one another, for we have never met. I was surfing the\u00a0internet\u00a0this morning and stumbled across the La Vista\u00a0Church\u00a0of Christ website and I must say that I enjoyed looking it over at great length. I\u00a0especially enjoyed the home page and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[127,152],"class_list":["post-41603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site","tag-social-activities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20266,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/should-i-let-a-congregation-know-that-the-preachers-son-is-homosexual\/","url_meta":{"origin":41603,"position":0},"title":"Should I let a congregation know that the preacher’s son is homosexual?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I know of a preacher in a Church of Christ, whose son is living a homosexual lifestyle. 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